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Pandemic515be interested buying in the wooden base cabinet. Because I hadn%u2019t listed it for sale, I directed him to a number of images on our studioindiana.com website. He quickly said he was interested it the base as well %u2014 and also the water panel with the filters, valves, and temperature controller. We quickly negotiated a package deal. I told the Detroiter I had a few minor items listed that weren%u2019t drawing much interest, and he could have them as a bonus. A few days later, it took him, and a buddy, in a borrowed pickup truck, almost six-hours to drive here. It had been raining the day before, and he was worried about the wooden cabinet getting wet, so he brought along a large roll of plastic shrink-wrap, which we wrapped around the entire cabinet in order to protect it from the weather. He was very pleased with his purchase, and said he%u2019d been looking for a darkroom sink for about a year. In the days following, we exchanged a few emails about installation questions, and he soon had a functioning darkroom. He told me his camera utilized 4\look at some of his photographs on-line. It was excellent work, and I was quite happy that my equipment had gone to such a nice home.My darkroom enlarger probably could have been shipped via UPS, but I didn%u2019t want to go to the trouble of creating a package that would be sturdy enough to protect it from damage. So for its eBay listing, I also specified that it had to be picked up here, it couldn%u2019t be shipped. I had bought my first enlarger for $100 back when I found that fiberglass sink for $10, but had picked up a newer model several years later at a flea market. I really didn%u2019t need two enlargers, but felt sorry for such fine piece of equipment just sitting amid used household goods with an insulting $5 price tag. I kept the newer one, and donated the older one to a nearby high school that offered a popular darkroom photography class. Now, I priced the newer enlarger on eBay at a very reasonable $80 so someone could afford to drive here and pick it up. It sold to a man who made a 9-hour trip from Charlotte, North Carolina. I also gave him a few extras that weren%u2019t selling on eBay, and he felt the long trip was well worth it. Before heading back, he told me how he and a partner were setting up a community-based dark-